Helium Streamer for iOS

Helium Streamer enables you to playback your personal music collection on an iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch device.

It streams and downloads music from Helium Music Manager. It works with all versions of Helium Music Manager - Free, Premium and Network.

This application is ideal if you want to listen to your Helium Music Manager's music collection away from your PC.
It uses the Wi-Fi connection to receive streamed music from Helium Music Manager from anywhere in and around your home and 3G if you are out and about. Music is cached on the device and is therefore available when offline from Helium Music Manager.

Helium Streamer enables the playback of Playlists, Searches, Suggested Tracks and User Favourites.
Details of the currently playing track are shown; as is information about the playing track's artist.

Helium Streamer interacts with Helium Music Manager's in-built Web Service to stream and download music to the device.

Features

• Easily stream and download music from Helium Music Manager
• Operate in Connected (to Helium Music Manager) or Local mode (play previously downloaded music so there is no need to be constantly connected during replaying)
• Full support for Helium Music Manager’s multi-User capability (Network Edition only)
• Play or Pause your music
• Select Next or Previous track
• Set rating and favourite status for the playing track
• Album artwork and details shown for the playing track
• Lyrics shown for the playing track
• Sub-tracks shown for the playing track
• Built in play queue handling which allows reordering, replaying and more
• Search Helium Music Manager's library for albums, artists, titles, genre, recording years, release years and publishers - play, enqueue or download found tracks
• Browse Playlists / Smart Playlists and play them
• Browse Playlist / Smart Playlist contents and play, enqueue or download individual tracks
• Browse Suggested Tracks and play, enqueue or download them
• Browse Favourite  Album, Artist and Tracks and play, enqueue or download them
• View selected track's album and play, enqueue or download track's album or individual album tracks
• View selected track's artist and play, enqueue or download artist's albums or individual album tracks
• Scrobble played music to Last.fm
• Full multi-user support with Helium Music Manager (Network Edition)
• One-click synchronization with Helium Music Manager (for backup of music files)
• One-click download of music from Helium Music Manager (using a pre-defined synchronization list)
• Support for iOS 4 - Retina display support and enables background music playing while other Apps are active
• Translations: English, Swedish and German
• User manual available as a PDF

Requirements

• This App requires Helium Music Manager version 8.0 or greater.
  (It will work with all versions of Helium Music Manager - Free, Premium and Network).
• Wi-Fi connection to the PC running Helium Music Manager.
• Runs on iPhone OS 3.1 or greater (including iOS 4).
• It is designed as a client iPhone/iPod Touch Application and will also run on the iPad.

Setup

Helium Music Manager - Options (on Windows PC)

1. Open Options from Tools > Options menu.
2. Scroll to the bottom in the left list and select Helium Web Service 
   (available under the Advanced header).
3. Setup the Port to use (default is 8080).
4. Click Start to start the server.

Helium Streamer - Settings (on iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch) 

These settings configure the basic operation of Helium Streamer and how it communicates with Helium Music Manager on the PC. 

1. Set Disable Auto-Lock to "ON" if you want to prevent the screen saver from activating.
2. Enter the Address of the Windows PC running Helium Music Manager 8.0+ (e.g. 192.168.0.2)
3. Enter the Port number (as defined in Helium Music Manager - Options, see above).
4. If required, adjust Lost Timeout. This value specifies how soon after Helium Streamer for iPhone loses connection to the Helium Music Manager server it should warn about the situation (default is 3 seconds). This allows for occasional lost connections to the server whilst streaming and playing back music.
5. Helium Streamer can play all music file types supported by Helium Music Manager. MP3 music files are played natively; all other file types will be transcoded. You can set the Transcoding Quality to one of 96kBps, 128kBps [default], 160kBps, 192kBps, 256kBps or 320kBps.

Helium Music Streamer users

Users of Helium Music Streamer can use the built-in webserver to be able to use Helium Streamer for iOS without the need of start Helium Music Manager.

Just ensure that the Helium Music Streamer service is up and running, then connect to the same address and port as where Helium Music Streamer is running and you can now use all functions in Helium Streamer for iOS without the need of starting Helium Music Manager on your machine.

User Manual

Click here to download the full manual for Helium Streamer for iOS v2.0. (PDF, 3.5 Mb)